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She was the sister ship of the famous commerce raider SMS Emden. While the Emden still had traditional triple-expansion engines, the Dresden was the first German cruiser to be equipped with the new Parsons turbines. She's one of the famous WWI ships involved in The Battle of the Falklands, surviving only because of her unique engines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Dresden_(1907)

Thanks for the information about the history of the ship, Kilted Cowboy. We'll add it to the record the next time we update it.

Very interesting comments and nice photo. Uqbar Editores published this year "Señales del Dresden" (in Spanish), a historical novel that through its narrative shows the Chilean adventure of the SMS Dresden in the Patagonia fiords. www.antartica.cl/antartica/servlet/LibroServlet?action=fi...

At left may be Colonel Archie Miller. arlingtoncemetery.net/amiller.htm In the center, it is likely the Lieutenant E. C. Kiel mentioned in the Red Bluff Daily News, Number 185, 8 October 1919 cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RBDN19191008.2.13 Sergeant Frank McKee (at right) was with him as they landed at the Presidio in San Francisco. It seems likely that the photo was taken at some point during the "army air service reliability race" mentioned in www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=... According to www.skytamer.com/4.1/1919.html the race ran from Oct 8 to Oct 31. Seven airmen died on the race.

This series of photos featuring Carl "Tooey" Spatz (Spaatz) (and his family), Emmett Tanner, Emil Kiel, Frank McKee and Archie Miller, was taken at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, as they (along with Kiel and McKee) were the first of the eastbound aviators to arrive there in the 1919 Transcontinental Aerial Derby. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/33946673233/ Featured on Page 345 in the November 1919 (Vol. XXI, No. 11) issue of The Gas Engine (later "Oil Field Engineering") is a contemporaneous photo of Tanner, Miller, and Spatz (Spaatz) and family at Roosevelt Field. See: books.google.com/books?id=C5xVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345&l...

Thanks, we'll add more information to the record when we update.

Archie Miller was at that time head of air activities on Long Island. He died a few years later in an Army ambulance airplane crash in Maryland. An account of the crash, including a biographical section on Miller (1878-1921) was published in Aviation and Aircraft Journal. books.google.com/books?id=UY9MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA742&l...